Dead Rabbit: 4. Caught in the Headlights
7/17/202620 min
After the wild rumours they heard about hare coursing in the villages, Lucy and Chris Packham join a stakeout to see it for themselves. It means driving over remote fields late at night, with only a volunteer called John and his friends to keep them safe. It feels like this is leading them into something new - could it be dangerous?
Buried is the multi award-winning investigative podcast series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this series, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor follow a trail left after dozens of dead animals were left in villages in the British countryside. They team up with the wildlife presenter Chris Packham, whose own dead-animal death threats escalated into a car bomb outside his house. The dead animals lead them into uncovering a criminal underworld in the British countryside.
Dead Rabbit is a Smoke Trail Production for BBC Radio 4.
Produced and presented by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor Sound design, mixing and AP: Jarek Zaba Original music and sounds by Phil Channell Executive Producers: Philip Abrams and Anita Elash Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
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First 90 secondsDan Ashby· Host0:00
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Speaker 4· Soundbite0:39
What if I don't finish this treatment and this cancer grows? But they didn't care. I'm dying laughing.
Speaker 30:45
making outrageous demands for money.
Lucy Taylor· Host0:47
They wanted millions.
Speaker 30:48
It was high tech and high stakes. The country is under attack. And it was highly secretive until someone exposed it all. Cyberhack, season four, The Conti Files. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
John· Guest1:04
So Warminster in the west, Tidworth in the east, 24 miles across.
Lucy Taylor· Host1:16
It's a cold January evening and I'm standing in the dark in a small public car park with Chris Peckham and another man we're going to call John.
John· Guest1:25
Three training areas, east, centre and west, and we're currently...